Giuseppe Ricapito
(Crime & Courts Reporter)

Giuseppe Ricapito was born in Irvine, California and attended the University of
California, Santa Barbara, where he double majored in History and English.
While in college Giuseppe worked for the weekly campus newspaper The Bottom
Line as the Isla Vista Beat Reporter, covering events such as the 2014 Deltopia
student riot and the May 2014 campus mass shooting. Following graduation,
Giuseppe worked for two years as an editor's associate at Entrepreneur Magazine
for their annual Franchise 500 Ranking project. During the same time, Giuseppe
also taught History and English at a private school for students with learning
and disciplinary issues. Giuseppe has worked at the Union Democrat as the
Police and Courts Reporter since August, 2016. He additionally covers topics
ranging from education, features and weather. In his free time, Giuseppe enjoys
music, reading, adventure, and exploring new places. He also hosts a weekly
live radio show on KAAD-LP 103.5 FM Sonora entitled "Night Time is the Right
Time."

Phone: 209-588-4526

Stories by Giuseppe Ricapito

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Jennifer Rapp was told on Tuesday a terrorist accused of orchestrating a 2008 suicide attack in Afghanistan that killed her son, U.S. Army Sgt. Bobby Rapp, was released from a prison in Germany last week. Rapp said she was stunned. She always believed “the Taliban
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Dr. Danny Anderson and his wife, Diane, have been sued in a $2.5 million wrongful death and negligence lawsuit by victims of the October 2016 La Grange Road vehicle collision that killed three people and injured three others. Dillon Hoffman, a whose mother, Tina, and
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A woman from Sonora died after she reportedly walked out into oncoming traffic on Highway 108 near Stockton Road Friday evening and was hit by two vehicles. The collision comes less than four weeks after an accident where a homeless man was seriously injured after
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The NFL was always a long shot for Kahale Warring, who stepped onto a football field for the first time as a Sonora High School senior. But at the NFL Scouting Combine next week, Warring will get the chance to show what he can do.
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Karie Lew first walked the Dragoon Gulch Trail in 2016 when she moved to Sonora from the Bay Area. She was mesmerized by the arch of the manzanita brush tunnel and the view of downtown nestled into the foothills, she said. Lew, 42, petitioned the
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